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The House of Routledge 1834-1934 With a History of Kegan Paul Trench Trubner and other Associated Firms.

By: MUMBY, F. A.:

Price: £68.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1934 1st:

Seller ID: 80866

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. Grey cloth with gilt to spine. Top page edges red. In dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (DW darkened on spine, some minor rubbing to edges, Not price clipped.) Cloth clean, some slight darkening to endpapers. Some foxing spots to closed outer page edges, else inside pages all very clean and tight. 232pp. Illustrated with a frontis portrait.
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Somerset Paupers. Unremembered Lives. SIGNED.

By: MUNCKTON, Thelma;

Price: £20.00

Publisher: Wincanton Press 1994 1st ed:

Seller ID: 75377

8.5 x 6 ins. In black cloth with gilt to spine in original glossy dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with very good dustwrapper. Author’s signature to title. 208pp.
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The Pope’s Daughter.

By: MURPHY, CAROLINE P.:

Price: £3.00

Publisher: faber and faber. 2004 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 74024

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. Dark blue endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; slightly creased along top edge. Not price clipped). Small inscription to half title page, dated 2005. A very clean and tight copy. 359pp. With colour and b/w photographs and illustrations. Biography of Felice della Rovere, the daughter of Pope Julius II.
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Memoirs of Adam Black

By: NICHOLSON, Alexander:

Price: £30.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1885:

Seller ID: 79166

Hardback, 7.5 x 5 inches. In Quarter-Bound brown morocco Leather binding, marbled boards, raised banding to spine, with gilt lettering and decorations. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Some minor handling to boards; edges and spine mildly rubbed. Front hinge starting after endpapers. A couple of minor handling marks, the odd pencil note, else a very tight and clean copy. 260pp. Illustrated with an engraved B&W frontis portrait.
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Image for The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original. In Two Volumes.

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini; A Florentine Artist. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language and Translated from the Original. In Two Volumes.

By: NUGENT, Thomas:

Price: £145.00

Publisher: London, T. Davies, 1771:

Seller ID: 79522

2 vols. Hardback, 8.5 x 5 ins. Brown calf with red and brown spine labels, raised banding and gilt decoration. In good conditions. Later rebinding with original spines laid over. Hinges cracked on both vols. Endpapers darkened, bookplates to fronts “William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland.” Some light staining to top of frontis, and top of pages 30-60. Some minor tanning to pages. Else clean and tight copies. 512 + 403pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontis portrait in volume 1.
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Frederica Queen of The Hellenes. Mission of a Modern Queen.

By: PAPANICOLAOU, Lilika S.;

Price: £90.00

Publisher: (PEG) Publishers Enterprises Group Ltd. Malta. 1994 1st edition:

Seller ID: 75444

10 x 7 ins. In blue cloth with gilt to spine, in original pictoral glossy dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (DW lamination slightly creased, original Hatchards barcode to rear.) 509pp. Many b&w photo illustrations.
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East and West. The Last Governor of Hong Kong on Power, Freedom and the Future. Signed and dedicated copy.

By: PATTEN, CHRIS:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Macmillan. 1998 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 67850

Size 6.0 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. Pictorial endpapers. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; spine slightly bumped at top end. lamination slightly creased. Not price clipped). Author’s dedicatory inscription to main title page. Else a very clean and tight copy. 342pp. With b/w photographs. The author recalls his time as the last Governor of Hong Kong and considers the future, not just of Hong Kong, but of the entire Far East and its changing role in the world.
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Life of Python. ...and now for something completely different from George Perry.

By: PERRY, GEORGE:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: Pavilion Michael Joseph. 1983 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 57061

Tall 8vo. In black cloth covers with green to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Small marks to back. Price clipped. Presentation inscription on front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. 192pp. Prof. ills. with b/w photographs. The history of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, with chapters on the individual members.
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P.G. Wodehouse, Man and Myth SIGNED COPY.

By: PHELPS, Barry:

Price: £32.00

Publisher: London, Constable, 1992 1st:

Seller ID: 81818

Hardback, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Light blue cloth with silver lettering to spine. In illustrated blue dustwrapper. In very good near fine condition with near fine DW (DW some minor handling marks to rear, not price clipped, in protective sleeve.) Cloth clean and bright. Authors inscription to front endpaper “Louis Hughes, Louis, thanks for your help (see p11) and for inspiring the Droves, Yours ever Barry, 15/10/92.” And signed again on main title page. Loose newspaper cutting in front. Else a very clean and tight copy. 344pp. Illustrated with B&W photo plates.
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The letters of Eliza Pierce. 1751-1775, with letters from her son Pierce Joseph Taylor, a schoolboy at Eton.

By: PIERCE, ELIZA and MACDONALD, VIOLET, ed:

Price: £18.00

Publisher: London: John Lane, The Bodley Head. 1927 1st edition:

Seller ID: 53469

Tall 8vo. In original bevelled purple silk covers with gilt to spine and front. In good condition. Spine darkened and slightly rubbed at top and bottom. Edges of covers darkened and small marks on spine and front. Corners slightly rubbed. owners inscription on front endpaper.Small marks on front endpapers and first blank page. Many pages uncut. 124pp. with b/w portrait frontis. Limted to 670 copies of which 75 copies, numbered 1 to 75 have been printed on Millbourn hand-made paper. This is number 68. A collection of letters of an 18th century Devonshire woman, with some comment on the literatu...
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Heroes.

By: PILGER, JOHN:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London. Jonathan Cape. 1986 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 61868

Tall 8vo. In maroon cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slightly rubbed along top edge. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 591pp. With b/w photographs. John Pilger’s Heroes are the ordinary people who manage to keep going, who live their lives in spite of war and poverty.
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Autobiography. A New Edition with an Introduction by J. B. Priestley.

By: POWYS, JOHN COWPER:

Price: £55.00

Publisher: Macdonald. London. 1967 1st thus.:

Seller ID: 76488

Hardback. Size approx 9 x 6 inches. In light blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and facsimile signature to front. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; small mark to front. Some minor rubbing. Not price clipped. In protective sleeve.) Small marks to front endpaper. Else a very clean and tight copy. 672pp. With b&w portrait frontis. John Cowper Powys’s autobiography written in 1934 and covering the first sixty years of the author’s life. This edition has an introduction by J.B.Priestley.
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Henry Hudson. The Golden Hind Series.

By: POWYS, Llewellyn:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Bodley Head Ltd. 1927. 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 84639

In dark blue cloth covers with gilt to spine and front. Sailing ship engraved on front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded. Small marks to front. Mild foxing to edges. Else a clean and tight copy. 213pp. Maps to endpapers. Illustrated first capital letters to chapters. B/w Frontis. The story and the fate of the explorer, Henry Hudson, with maps of Hudson River and North Atlantic coasts.
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Thirteen Worthies. Preface by Van Wyk Brooks.

By: POWYS, LLEWELYN:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: New York. American Library Service. 1923 1st USA edition.:

Seller ID: 84673

Size 4.5 x 7.0 inches. In dark maroon cloth covers with black lettering to spine and gilt to front. In very good condition. Spine slightly faded and bumped at ends. Back hinge slightly cracked. Parts of original dustwrapper tipped in to front endpaper. 221pp. The author gives brief biographies of thirteen ‘Worthies’. These include Chaucer, Marlowe, Tom Coryat, Izaak Walton, Beau Nash, William Barnes and Thomas Hardy.
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Virginia Woolf & The Raverats. A Different Sort of Friendship. Edited by William Pryor. Signed Limited Edition with Numbered Print.

By: PRYOR, William:

Price: £220.00

Publisher: Bath, Clear Books, 2003 1st Ltd Edition Signed. 271/500.:

Seller ID: 85171

Hardback, 9.5 x 7 inches. Halfbound with green cloth to spine lettered in gilt, with marbled paper boards. In hard card slipcase. In excellent near fine condition. Lovely smart cover and slipcase. (SC some minor light rubbing to edges.) Signed by editor on last page, no other inscriptions or marks. Else an excellent clean & tight copy. 205pp. With colour plates and many B&W illustrations throughout. Single numbered B&W plate in green card slip loose in slipcase.
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Virginia Woolf & The Raverats. A Different Sort of Friendship. Edited by William Pryor. Signed Limited Edition with Numbered Print.

By: PRYOR, William:

Price: £225.00

Publisher: Bath, Clear Books, 2003 1st Ltd Edition Signed. 250/500.:

Seller ID: 85170

Image for Leaves From the Journal of “Our Life on the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861.” To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. Edited by Arthur Helps. AND More Leaves From the Journal of “Our Life on the Highlands, From 1862 to 1882.” In Two Volumes.

Leaves From the Journal of “Our Life on the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861.” To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions. Edited by Arthur Helps. AND More Leaves From the Journal of “Our Life on the Highlands, From 1862 to 1882.” In Two Volumes.

By: QUEEN VICTORIA: HELPS, Arthur:

Price: £80.00

Publisher: London, Smith Elder & Co. 1868 & 1884 1st:

Seller ID: 85034

Two Volumes. Hardbacks, 8.5 x 6 inches. Dark green pebbled cloth with gilt lettering to spines, and gilt designs to boards. Beveled edges. Vol.1 has brown endpapers, Vol.2 has decorative grey/blue endpapers. In very good conditions. A couple of minor handling marks to covers; corners and edges slightly bumped and rubbed, a couple of minor surface bubbles to cloth on vol.1. Vol.2. has scratch to cloth on bottom front corner. Endpapers clean, no penned inscriptions. Old glue repair to frontis plate in vol.1, plate has been re-placed with blank side facing title page. Some minor darkening to edge...
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The She-Apostle. The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal.

By: REDWORTH, GLYN:

Price: £4.00

Publisher: OUP. 2008 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 73391

Size 6.25 x 9.5 inches. In black cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In near fine condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Not price clipped). A very clean and tight copy. 276pp. With b/w photographs and illustrations. Biography of a Spanish woman who was smuggled into England by the Jesuits in 1605 and worked in secret for many years supporting Roman Catholics in a time of widespread persecution. Includes extracts from her writings describing life in Shakespeare’s London.
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Guy’s Hospital 1725-1948

By: RIPMAN, Hujohn A.;

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Guy’s Hospital Gazette Committee 1951 1st:

Seller ID: 75595

10 x 7.5 inches. In blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt design to front. In original dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper. (DW rubbing to edges, and darkening to rear. Corners chipped, sml tear top of spine.) Very slight fading to ends of spine. Inside pages clean and tight throughout, no marks or inscriptions. 176pp. b&w photo ills throughout.
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Sherborne, Oxford and Cambridge. Recollections of Mrs Ernest Stewart Roberts.

By: ROBERTS, MRS ERNEST STEWART:

Price: £10.00

Publisher: London, Martin Hopkinson. 1934 1st edition.:

Seller ID: 83999

Hardback, Small 8vo. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. Bound in cream cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. In very good condition with good dustwrapper (dw; some rubbing and small nicks to top edge, some minor handling marks, not price clipped.) Cloth clean and bright. Some mild foxing to endpapers, some spots to outer page edges. Else inside pages all clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight copy. 232pp. Illustrated with a B&W frontis portrait. Autobiography of Mrs Roberts her time in Sherborne where her father was headmaster of the school, and later when her husband was...
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